Re: [BProc] Fedora Core 2 (2.6.5), bproc-4.0.0pre4 and lam-7.1a1r9667

[Daniel G. <dg...@ti...>]

Kevin,

A couple of months ago I had a similar problem, and Brian Barrett, who
is a/the maintainer of lam-mpi said he would hack at it.  I offered
to test it on a bproc-4 cluster.  However I never heard from him again.
The exchange is in the bproc list archive (I assume there is an archive :-).

If you want I can send you the relevant list exchange.

Daniel


On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:42:33PM -0600, Kevin Russell wrote:
> Thanks for the good work.
> 
> I've managed to boot a 9 node cluster under the 2.6.5 kernel
> and bproc-4.0.0pre4 using PXE and etherboot.  (Insure that
> you do NOT "Use register arguments (EXPERIMENTAL)" CONFIG_REGPARM
> under the "Processor type and features" in the kernel configuration).
> This was noted by Steven James in an earlier posting (thanks).
> 
> I didn't have much success with beoboot.  The node would successfully
> download the stage2 image, but then immediately reset and reboot the
> node.  However I'm fairly happy with booting via PXE (and in one
> node's case; etherboot).
> 
> Now for the question:  How long before lam-mpi catches up
> with the API changes between bproc-3.2.6 and bproc-4.0.0pre4?
> 
> A quick attempt at building lam-7.1a1r9667 (a nightly snapshot)
> indicates that lam-mpi needs to change the way it usings the
> following funtions:
> 
>   bproc_nodestatus
>   bproc_getnodebyname
>   bproc_nodenumber
> 
> I suspect that I could do this, but I thought I'd check to see
> if anyone else has already tackled this issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
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